Cry of the Hawk
“It was not an all-consuming passion, as it was for some on this frontier, more something to pass the time.The same could not be said for the five others around the big table. Four of them were tie-gang laborers, big men with hardened hands and dull, clearly defined moves to their physical presence. Nothing slight about them.The last was clearly not of this place, in speech and dress and the manner in which the man conducted himself. Jonah figured he could not be over thirty—no older than he. Bu...t despite the fact that the man did not fit in with the other six players in even the crudeness of their talk, the well-groomed man was nonetheless comfortable with this table and this game of cards, and perhaps the whiskey the barman kept at the ready whenever the young, long-mustached card player nodded in his direction.Over the hours Jonah and Artus had been planted at the table, the first hints of cold had rattled into a plains snowstorm that whistled and threw everything it had against the north side of the clapboard building.MoreLess
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